All In: Cancer, Near Death, New Life - Couverture souple

Breedlove, Caitlin

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1849355304 ISBN 13 : 9781849355308

Editeur : AK Press, 2024

Synopsis

All In is a queer feminist memoir of cancer and what it means to survive.

After years of experiencing painful periods that she was led to believe were normal, Caitlin Breedlove was diagnosed with ovarian cancer--the deadliest of all gynecological cancers, which disproportionately impacts queer women, trans men, Jewish women of Eastern European descent, and older women. As she writes, "It feeds on those who can't go to a doctor and those who convince ourselves we do not need to."

Thrust into a series of major surgeries amid the isolation of the COVID-19 pandemic, Breedlove lingered at the edges of the living and made a deal with her ancestors: if she lived, she would write for them and all the suffering in her lineage that had gone unnamed.

With the generous and community-minded heart of an organizer, Breedlove chronicles harms caused by our profit-driven health care system, and explores the rigors of single parenting while living with chronic illness; the medical neglect that women, the LGBTQ+ community, and others on the margins experience; and her challenges with addiction. And, like Audre Lorde and Barbara Ehrenreich, she calls out the insidious impact of "toxic positivity" on women who live with cancer. The result is an intensely powerful narrative about the connective potential of grief and forging a new life.

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À propos des auteurs

For the last twenty years, Caitlin Breedlove has been organizing, writing, and building movements in red states, and working across race, class, culture, gender, sexuality and faith.

Breedlove began her work in the South doing popular education and organizer training at the historic Highlander Center in Tennessee. She's a current board member and the former Co-Director of Southerners On New Ground (SONG), where she co-led innovative intersectional movement building work in the LGBTQ sector for almost a decade.

She is the former Campaign Director of "Standing on the Side of Love" at the Unitarian Universalist Association, where she served as a bridge between grassroots social movements and the denomination. And she is host of the podcast, Fortification: Side With Love, where she interviews movement leaders and organizers about their spiritual lives. Caitlin is the Deputy Executive Director at the Women's March.

adrienne maree brown is a writer rooted in Detroit who now lives in Durham, NC. She is a student of the works of Octavia E. Butler and Ursula K. Le Guin. Her books include Octavia's Brood, Emergent Strategy, Grievers, and Maroons. Her visionary fiction has appeared in The Funambulist, Harvard Design Review, and Dark Mountain.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: AK Press
• Date d'édition: 2024
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1849355304
• ISBN 13: 9781849355308
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 140
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible